Before his move to the Berlin Institute of Health and Charité he was founding and managing director of Heidelberg University’s Systems Biology center BioQuant and Head of Division "Theoretical Bioinformatics" (B080) at the DKFZ in Heidelberg. His group has delivered significant contributions to the field of health informatics, cancer genomics and systems biology. Since 2016 Roland Eils has been coordinator of the HiGHmed consortium interconnecting health data from eight university medical centers in Germany. He has published over 350 publications cited over 27000 times resulting in an h-index of 83 (source: google scholar).